Parenting
How Parental PTSD Can Affect Children
If you have PTSD from combat, assault, accident, loss, or other trauma, parenting is complicated. Your triggers might be activated by normal child beh...
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Parenting
When a Parent Is Grieving: Effects on the Child
When you're grieving, your child feels the effects. Your sadness is in the house. Your attention is divided. Your emotional energy is depleted. Unders...
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Parenting
Why Maternal Anxiety Is Common
Many new mothers experience anxiety. You might have intrusive thoughts about harm coming to your baby. You might check constantly that your baby is br...
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Emotions
When Parents Need Help Themselves
Many parents reach a point where they recognize they're struggling beyond what they can manage alone. This might look like persistent sadness, overwhe...
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Parenting
Parental Mental Health in the Early Years: Why It Matters and Where to Get Help
The first years of parenting -- sleep deprivation, the loss of former identity, the relentless responsibility, the isolation that many new parents exp...
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